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Title

Martyrology of Coptic Saints.

Other related names

• Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940, donor
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 182
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944235813503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/276880227

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1650 and 1799?

Summary

Abridged martyrology of Coptic Saints, arranged according to months and days. The terms used in connection with the death of the saints are either "shahādah" or "niyāḥah."

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Condition: Without title leaf. Pastedowns wormed; many leaves wormed at inner margin and detached from spine; a few wormholes with occasional minor damage to text (f. 1-11); a few leaves stained at fore-edge (f. 2-3, 26-29); occasional staining at inner margins of leaves, particularly at tail; inkblot in tail margin (f. 9r).
   

Watermark

Three crescent moons; large letter C.

Extent

30 leaves : 161 x 110 mm bound to 162 x 110 mm

Collation

Paper, 30; 1-3¹⁰; 1-29, [30]; modern Roman script foliation in pencil, upper right verso. Catchwords on versos, lower left corner.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in contemporary full blind-tooled black leather; white paper label with typed shelf-mark on spine. Spine largely wanting (25 mm. remains at head, detached from textblock); upper board mutilated with severe worming and detached from textblock; lower board wormed and partly detached from textblock.

Layout

12 long lines.

Decoration

Titles in larger thuluth script. Some small crosses appear within the text.

Script

Written in an upright, wide naskh in black ink; pointed, partially vocalized.

Provenance

• Presented to the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning by Dr. Cyrus Adler (bookplate with 2 ms. shelf marks, 1 in pencil, 1 in ink, front pastedown).
   

Subjects topical

• Coptic Christian saints--Biography--Early works to 1800
• Christian martyrs
• Martyrologies

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--17th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Martyrology of Coptic Saints]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library bookplate